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TARPSBird

TARPSBird

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...DVD player! :d
"Wing And A Prayer" (1944) starring Don Ameche and Dana Andrews, and several other folks I'm sure you'll recognize from other movies and TV shows. Fictional story of a carrier on a decoy mission in early 1942 to deceive the Japanese into believing our forces were spread out instead of concentrated at Midway. Some good scenes of early/mid-1943 carrier flight ops: TBM's, F6F's, SBD's and SB2C's. One of the few Nav Air flicks I've seen that gives some screen time to enlisted aircrewmen. Remember that dawn launch scene from "Tora! Tora! Tora!"? This movie looks darn near identical. Screen shots follow. :)
 
Tarps~ Never got the chance to see that movie- heard a lot about it! I will look it up! Thanks for sharing the screenshots with us!
 
C9G,
It's a typical WWII story line but a good combination of characters and airplanes. Fun to see a very young Richard Jaeckel as Beezy the turret gunner, and Harry Morgan (later Col. Potter on "MASH") as Ens. Brainerd. :) Worth a rental, or a place on your Netflix list.
 
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